Alan Bradley

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704 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Alan Bradley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · The Inside Story Of How Samantha Cookes Conned Her Way Through Ireland & The UK · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So everyone would be paying her deposits to go on this trip to Lapland, which never was to be

So things like that.

However, it would change and it changed from place to place.

She would usually pose as a nanny or an au pair living in families homes under a fake name with a whole fake backstory.

Be different every time, but some similarities.

And then I suppose where a lot of people became aware of her was in 2022, 2023.

She was down in Kenmare and Kerry.

And here she was posing as Carrie Jade Williams.

And she was a terminally ill, award-winning author with Huntington's disease and gained quite a bit of traction there in that role.

So all kinds of different things she ran over the years.

really interesting because in my three years on this looking at her story I'm constantly trying to figure out what's the motivation sometimes it's financial but not always and I think a lot of us can you know not agree with but can understand someone running a financial scam you kind of understand the motivation there she's just trying to make easy money um

that wasn't always the case.

Sometimes it was just attaching herself to vulnerable people who had a lot of trauma and sort of seems to be feeding off that and presenting herself as a hero character and sort of enjoying the adulation around that.

A lot of the scams were totally pointless.

for financial reasons, but she would get intimately close with people and children as well.

So I think that's what really disturbed a lot of the parents involved.

So I spoke to a lot of her family and friends from Gloucester when she was growing up, and there was a propensity to lie always there.

Her first boyfriend spoke about how she lied about having anorexia, how she lied about her mother having cancer, you know, all of it untrue.

So we see that later when she posed as someone having Huntington's disease.

So there's threads there that always seem to have been in her.

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